customs posts
Frontier inspection points
Customs posts are locations where government officials inspect goods and people crossing international borders.
They collect duties on imports, enforce trade regulations, and check for contraband.
The term appears in discussions of border control and international commerce: Trucks backed up for miles at the customs post.
- checkpointInspection station on route
- tariffTax on traded goods
- borderOuter edge or limit
- border patrolBoundary enforcement agency
- no man's landUnowned space between enemies
import · excise taxes · inspection · random search · green channel · nothing to declare · goods to declare · duty · trafficking · smuggling · port of entry · gatekeeper · border crossing · regulation · duty-frees · duty free shop · contraband · cargo handling
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